Ethics & moral philosophy
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Ethics & moral philosophy
Hardcover. The Trolley Problem is an ethical thought experiment dreamed up in 1967 by British philosopher Philippa Foot, and further developed by American thinker Judith Jarvis Thomson in the '70s. Since then, philosophers have devised a variety of iterations of the problem. This book explores these through the lens of a trial in the court of public opinion. Num Pages: 112 pages, black and white line drawings. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Publisher
- Workman Publishing Company
- Number of pages
- 112
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761175131
- ISBN
- 9780761175131
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.28
€ 18.99
€ 14.28
Paperback. Editor(s): Baumgarth, William P.; Regan, Richard J., S.J. Num Pages: 316 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 316
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872206632
- ISBN
- 9780872206632
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€ 26.99€ 20.52
€ 26.99
€ 20.52
Hardback. A collection of essays devoted to the concept of hospitality from different disciplinary perspectives such as philosophy, politics, anthropology, aesthetics, ethics, and translation studies. Editor(s): Claviez, Thomas. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823251476
- ISBN
- 9780823251476
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Condition: New
€ 111.54
€ 111.54
Hardback. Makes Adorno's lectures on moral philosophy available for the first time to English-speaking readers Gives students an accessible introduction to some of the topics discussed in Adorno's more difficult work An important new resource for scholars drawing on Adorno's thought. Num Pages: 232 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745619415
- ISBN
- 9780745619415
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Condition: New
€ 73.04
€ 73.04
Paperback. Makes Adorno's lectures on moral philosophy available for the first time to English-speaking readers Gives students an accessible introduction to some of the topics discussed in Adorno's more difficult work An important new resource for scholars drawing on Adorno's thought. Num Pages: 234 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 319.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745628653
- ISBN
- 9780745628653
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Condition: New
€ 25.88
€ 25.88
Trouble With Strangers represents a groundbreaking intervention in ethics by one of the world's most important theoreticians. It is written with Terry Eagleton's usual wit, panache, and uncanny ability to summarize and criticize otherwise complex philosophical and theoretical conversations. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405185738
- ISBN
- 9781405185738
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Condition: New
€ 118.07
€ 118.07
Paperback. Launches a surprising defence of the reality of evil, drawing on literary, theological, and psychoanalytic sources to suggest that evil, no mere medieval artefact, is a real phenomenon with palpable force in our contemporary world. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPQ; JFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press New Haven
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300171259
- ISBN
- 9780300171259
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.52
€ 17.99
€ 14.52
Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 825.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813228099
- ISBN
- 9780813228099
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Condition: New
€ 78.30
€ 78.30
Paperback. Terence Irwin presents a historical and critical study of the development of moral philosophy over two thousand years, from ancient Greece to the Renaissance. This is the first volume of a three-part survey of the entire history of Western ethics. Irwin begins here with Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, and guides the reader through the centuries. Num Pages: 840 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; HPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 172 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 842
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199693856
- ISBN
- 9780199693856
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Condition: New
€ 73.12
€ 73.12
Paperback. Surpassing even the state and the church, the corporation has become the core institution of the modern world. This book traces the evolution of this revolutionary institution through the behind-the-scenes figures who shaped it such as Thomas Scott, a genius who invented the holding company, Stephen Field, the Supreme Court Judge and others. Num Pages: 297 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 93 x 61 x 8. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Berrett-Koehler United States
- Number of pages
- 297
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781576753194
- ISBN
- 9781576753194
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.97
€ 18.99
€ 17.97
Paperback. Argues that the ability to imagine oneself as another person is an indispensable human capacity - as essential to moral awareness as it is to literary appreciation - and that this talent for identification is the same as the talent for metaphor. This title offers an original meditation on the necessity of imagination to moral and aesthetic life. Series: Princeton Monographs in Philosophy. Num Pages: 104 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 139 x 216 x 8. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 104
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691154466
- ISBN
- 9780691154466
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.38
€ 30.99
€ 22.38
Hardback. Drawing on research in anthropology, psychology, and a host of other disciplines, this book argues that cross-cultural variation raises serious problems for theories that propose universally applicable conditions for moral responsibility. It develops a way of thinking about responsibility that takes cultural diversity into account. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 149 x 25. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691139937
- ISBN
- 9780691139937
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Condition: New
€ 53.57€ 42.47
€ 53.57
€ 42.47
Hardback. Is what we have reason to do a matter of fact? If so, what kind of truth is involved, how can we know it, and how do reasons motivate and explain action? In this concise and lucid book T. M. Scanlon offers answers, with a qualified defense of normative cognitivism-the view that there are normative truths about reasons for action. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: HPK; HPM; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 136 x 15. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199678488
- ISBN
- 9780199678488
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.22
€ 71.22
Paperback. How do we judge whether an action is morally right or wrong? If an action is wrong, what reason does that give us not to do it? Why should we give such reasons priority over our other concerns and values? This text offers answers to these questions, and explores the views and values behind them. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 27. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Edition
- Revised
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674004238
- ISBN
- 9780674004238
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 32.54
€ 38.99
€ 32.54
Hardback. Cutting across social science and the humanities, this book develops the ontological implications of the thesis of the Manchester School of Social Anthropology: that all social order necessarily betrays conflicting underlying principles. It also mounts a study of the ontology of self and other in relation to dualism, as well as non-dualism. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845452247
- ISBN
- 9781845452247
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 183.29
€ 183.29
Hardback. T. Byram Karasu, M.D. reflects on loving, working, living, dying, and everything else-his philosophy of life expressed in microstyle. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 245.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442216884
- ISBN
- 9781442216884
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 42.95
€ 42.95
Paperback. A collection of papers from the Ninth European Conference on the Philosophy of Religion held at the University of Aarhus, Denmark in August 1992. The theme of the conference was theism and its modern alternatives. Is philosophical theism an adequate response to religious theism? Editor(s): Andersen, Svend. Series: Acta Jutlandica Series. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRAB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 169 x 18. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Aarhus University Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772884820
- ISBN
- 9788772884820
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Condition: New
€ 39.14
€ 39.14
Paperback. Examines the structure, intention, and originality of K E Logstrup's ethics as a whole. This collection of essays is a companion to "Beyond the Ethical Demand", as well as to "The Ethical Demand". It also examines Logstrup's crucial concept of the "sovereign expressions of life" and his view of moral principles as a substitute for ethics. Editor(s): Andersen, Svend; Niekerk, Kees van Kooten. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 169 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268020316
- ISBN
- 9780268020316
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.08
€ 37.99
€ 34.08
Paperback. This book provides students with a toolbox for the study of the ethics of technology, exploring the methods available for ethical assessments of technologies and their social introduction. Editor(s): Hansson, Sven Ove. Series: Philosophy, Technology and Society. Num Pages: 278 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, 5 tables. BIC Classification: HPQ; TBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield International
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783486588
- ISBN
- 9781783486588
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 74.24
€ 74.24
paperback. Often we act neither for our own sake nor out of duty or an impersonal concern for the world. Rather, we act out of love for objects that we rightly perceive as worthy of love - and it is these actions that give meaning to our lives. This title states that this kind of meaningfulness constitutes a distinctive dimension of a good life. Series: The University Center for Human Values Series. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: HPM; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 12. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 168
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691154503
- ISBN
- 9780691154503
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.32
€ 26.99
€ 20.32